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Figure 28. — ^Water Street of Woods Hole at the beginning of the 



20th century. Former Candle House at right. Fisheries 

 Residence at upper left. 



In the fall of 1911 he accepted the position of "Naturalist of 

 the Albatross". For the next two years he was engaged in a survey 

 of San Francisco Bay, which was a cooperative study supported by 

 the Bureau of Fisheries and the University of California. Upon 

 completion of this work he joined the staff of Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research, as that institution was then known (later re- 

 named Scripps Institution of Oceanography). 



Sumner's contribution to the biology of fishes includes a 

 valuable study of adaptive color changes in flatfishes. In later years, 

 this work was continued and expanded by Mast who was a guest 

 investigator at the Woods Hole and Beaufort Laboratories of the 

 Bureau, Sumner's work on oxygen consumption and acclimatization 

 of fishes greatly advanced our knowledge of the oxygen demand by 

 various species and provided background information for devising 

 bioassay tests that are now used to determine the toxicity of polluted 



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